Eidsmoe actually publicly stated that he despises recism. However, he is personally sympathetic to the rights of states to secede ( defending the right of Alabama for instance to secede ).
He believes that Jefferson Davis understood the constitution better than Abe Lincoln.
This issue alone is going to come back and haunt Bachmann were she to be the nominee.
She will be asked the question : “Do you favor the right of any state to secede from the USA?”
Now I’d like to listen to her answer to that question.
There is a pretty good case to be made that states DID have the right to leave the union. After all, a bit over 80 years earlier, 13 colonies left the British Empire...